Children of a Lesser God – Sanaton rakkaus

Children of a Lesser God, a modern classic, is Mark Medoff’s play about love reaching across different worlds. It charts the crosscurrents faced by a deaf woman and a hearing man as they fall in love and make a life together. It juxtaposes identity, self-determination, and finding one’s own voice with assimilation, passion, and bridge-building. Sparks fly when Sarah, totally deaf from birth, and James, a speech therapist, take measure of each other, and of the forces surrounding them.

The play will receive its Finnish premiere at Espoo City Theatre, and boasts the dazzling, Toronto Theatre Critics Award 2017 winner, Dawn Jani Birley, as Sarah. The charismatic and ever-popular stage and film actor Santeri Kinnunen will appear as James.